Meeting at ICAA + Movie On Friday 19th January we went to Barcelona city centre for a meeting at ICAA (the organisation for Adoption and Fostering in Cataluña) to meet with E, our contact person. She looks after several countries, one of them Vietnam. It was merely to meet her in person, just so we know the face behind the emails or phone calls. She was very nice and told us about the adoption process in Vietnam (average waiting times, paperwork needed, etc) and told us her personal view on Vietnam when she was there for holidays. Honestly there was nothing we didn´t know already, but it was very nice to meet her.
She said we would be called, probably this week, by the adoption agency where we decided to adopt and that she already sent our file there. So here we are….waiting again.
The day after we went to the movies because this Spanish movie about adoption in Vietnam was released last week (really, how much coincidence is that??). It is called “Thi Mai, Rumbo a Vietnam” and is about the adoption of Thi Mai (a little girl) who was supposed to be adopted by a Spanish woman. She dies in a car accident but her mom (the adoptive grandmother of the child) decides to travel to Vietnam anyway to try and adopt the girl herself. We thought it would be a comical movie (the grandmother travels with two of her friends and none of them have ever travelled outside Spain), but most of the time we were emotional to be honest. It was great to see Vietnam (well, mostly Hanoi and surroundings) and a bit of the adoption process once arrived at the point of picking up your child.
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